By default, anyone with a link to the showcase can view it. This means that someone you’ve shared a link with could forward it to someone else. However, you can set it so that only people you invite to the showcase can view it. This option is available in the sharing settings.

By default, the people you share a showcase with can download and leave comments on the files in it.

Only the owner (or creator) of a showcase can edit it. However, if you have files from a shared folder in your showcase, anyone you’ve shared that folder with can edit the files in it. Those changes would then appear in the showcase.

No, anyone you’ve shared a showcase with can view it, even if they don’t have a Dropbox account.

However, to leave comments on your showcase the people you’ve shared it with will need a Dropbox account—and need to be signed in to that account.

Both a showcase and a folder do similar things, in that they’re ways of packaging (or “bundling”) files in your Dropbox account. You can then share this package with others.

There are three main differences between a showcase and a folder:

• A folder is simply a list of the files within it, whereas a showcase allows you to curate the files on a branded page with visual previews, custom layouts, and file captions
• You can track activity on a showcase; this can’t be done on a folder
• Any given file can only exist in a single folder, whereas a file can be included in multiple showcases

There’s also one important similarity: If you edit the files in a showcase or a shared folder, recipients will always see that latest version of the file.

Any file type that previews in Dropbox will also preview in a showcase.

Video previews won’t play directly on the showcase page—they’ll appear as a still image instead. However, if you click this image a lightbox will open where the video preview can be played.